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SU creates Police cruiser damaged Aaron Weisbrod alcon football is ltural awareness. hase. mds off on apathy. a mission. ige4 Tab Page 1 m\t #Sj£tto9 "ff The B G News "Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence" Thursday, August 31,1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 84, Issue 3 Water International quality housing found tested Grad student crisis resolved; Plant studies some undergrads still looking new methods Aaron Gray of accommodating international The BC News graduate students as well as new Amy Johnson underclassmen. The BC News University housing officials Ashley Hall was scheduled to breathed a sigh of relief this be closed for the 1995-96 school Bowling Green water could be week when an apartment was year along with the rest of Kreis- a lot cleaner if the city water found for the last of ISO interna- cher, but had to be reopened at treatment plant adds new equip- tional graduate students who ar- the last minute to house new ment. rived in Bowling Green with no freshmen, said Wayne Colvin, di- The plant, located at 17549 place to live. rector of residential services. River Road, has initiated a pilot Living prospects for a number Colvin said Ashley will only be study which will test new equip- of other new and returning un- open until December, however, ment that may eventually be in- dergraduates are still up in the when its residents will be scat- stalled permanently. air, however. tered among other openings he The changes may be needed to The BG Newi/Kelly Rl«« This year's record number of believes will exist by that time. meet new regulations, according Officials are testing the nanof i lira lion unit at the Bowling Green Water Treatment Plant to decipher if incoming freshmen combined The University sent out a plea to Daryl Stockburger, director of any improvements can be made. with the closing of Kreischer to the Bowling Green community public utilities. Quadrangle resulted in every to open their homes to interna- "We want to improve the plant director. also being studied which dis- try out the equipment on the ci- campus room and every local tional students, said Barbara while also extending the expan- The pilot study will try out infects all germs," Langenderfer ty's particular water supply, apartment being filled. Limes, co ordinator of off- sion to meet the demands of the granular-activated carbon test- said. "A nano-filtration gives the Langenderfer said. A telephone survey of local campus housing. Twenty-eight city," Stockburger said. ing, which removes all taste and highest quality of water, its al- "A pilot study enables us to see rental agencies revealed that not local residents accepted. The expansion of the water odor from naturally-occurlng or- most pure water except for the what we want to do in the fu- one student apartment vacancy "Quite a few people treatment plant is intended to ganics, herbicides and pesti- addition of chlorine which is re- ture," he said. "We want to try exists in town. have offered spare rooms and provide better quality water, said cides. quired by the EPA" and actually see the equipment The overflow has forced hous- Norm Langenderfer, the plant's "A nano-filtration testing is The study will be a good way to we want to use in the expansion." ing officials to find creative ways See HOUSING, page four. Campus Equal rights promoted building Chinese officials tighten security day care on conference - Renee School facilities The Associated Press Amy Johnson The BC Newi/Kelly Rlf ■ BEIJING - At a lavish opening The BG News Construction for the child care facility on the corner of Frazee Avenue ceremony, organizers of the A few younger faces may ap- and College Street Is currently under way. largest women's conference ever pear at a corner of campus in vowed Wednesday to fight for January when construction of a help from students involved in was not the first attempt to empowerment and equality. new child care center is com- child care development. A Uni- create a child care center. There was no mention of the fact pleted. versity wing in the center will "The University has tried be- that the 18,000 women there may The center, to be located be- serve the children of faculty, fore to get funds for a facility," have to fight just to get their hind College Park, will be 14,637 staff and students. Waddle said. "We were able to message across during the square feet and will Include Mutual benefits and funding al- gain grant money from the Board 10-day event. space for 10 classrooms, a full- lowed the construction of the fa- of Regents which enabled us to Acrobats did flips accompan- service kitchen and an outside cility, said Peg Flynn-Morrison, match funds with WSOS and ied by opera singers, and hun- playground. director of public relations at blend the project." dreds of dancers in blue suits and The project came about WSOS. short orange dresses made color- through a partnership between "We received $600,000 from State aid made the construc- ful patterns with fans and pom- the University and WSOS, a non- the Ohio Department of Educa- tion of the center possible, Flynn- pons. Organizers predicted women would have unpreceden- profit community action organi- tion and the University received Morrison said. zation serving Wood, Sandusky, $304,000 from the Ohio Board of "Headstart and child care is ted power in the 21st century. Ottawa and Seneca counties. Regents," Flynn-Morrison said. getting a lot of goverment sup- But even as a speaker exhorted The center and its programs Bob Waddle, director of Uni- port now," she said. "Voinovich the women to "celebrate wom- will be operated by WSOS with versity capital planning, said this is very supportive." en's power - our strength," par- ticipants prepared to move from the Beijing sports complex where the ceremony was held to Environmental health program Huairou, a small town an hour's drive to the north. China moved the conference receives maximum recognition there four months ago in a move organizers charge was designed to keep the women away from Genell Pwelich the quality of our program," he said. "It demon- The BC News strates that the students are getting quality envi- delegates to the UN. Fourth ronmental health education." World Conference on Women, The University's environmental health program Silverman said the reaccreditation is important, which begins Monday in Beijing is among an elite group thanks to its recent reac- especially for graduates from the program. - and from the 11 million resi- creditation by the National Environmental Health "This reaccreditation gives the graduates dents of the Chinese capital. Science and Protection Accreditation Council. prestige, which is reflected in how desirable per- The organizers initially The program, which was reaccredited for six spective employers view them," he said. protested the move to Huairou, years, is among only 22 other programs in the Dean Toennls, senior environmental health but had resigned themselves to 'country to receive the maximum level of recogni- major, agreed. making the best of it This week, China restricted APphMo tion. "This is great because Industries that have envi- A factory smoke stack and overhead wiring provide the backdrop as Gary Silverman, director of the environmental ronmental programs within them will look at the them further, saying any demon- strations would be restricted to a an African delegate descends some stairs on the site of the NGO con- health, said the recognition is a great affirmation accredited programs first when hiring someone ference In Huairou Wednesday. for the program, which includes about 75 students. for the job," he said. school yard the size of a basket- "The accreditation council took a comprehen- Keil also said the accreditation can make a dif- ball court - and could not the entire meeting site. opposes. Many applicants said sive look at our program and concluded it Is a good ference to perspective employers who may con- criticize China. "We're certainly not going to they were rejected without ex- experience," he said. "Students are prepared well sider graduates from an accredited program Forum executive director allow that a small area of the big planation even though their by the program." higher quality. Irene Santiago said Wednesday forum site is designated as an paperwork was in order. Chris Kell, assistant professor of environmental "With the growing environmental field, it is a that Chinese officials never men- area for freedom of expression," Organizers refused to say how health, said having an accredited program demon- more impressive credential," he said. tioned the restrictions to organ- she said. many women had checked in, but strates a rigorous program where the students Silverman said the program's curriculum was izers, and she planned to hold Another sore spot was China's by Wednesday evening there did learn a lot. studied to see how science-oriented and applica- China to its earlier pledge to give refusal to grant visas to many "This accreditation is an accurate reflection of tion-oriented it was.